National meeting on open source

The National Conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) under the theme " Free and open source software with education and community " will take place in Hanoi on December 5, 2008.

This fifth national FOSS workshop was organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology to evaluate the implementation of the Government of Vietnam policy on the application and development of open source software after 4 years of implementation; promoting the introduction of FOSS in applications in education and training institutions; promote cooperation among FOSS communities, solution providers and user organizations; introduce solutions and implementation experience in FOSS application in Vietnam.

According to the Ministry of Science and Technology, the conference is expected to include a plenary session in the morning, focusing on assessing the situation of government policy implementation on FOSS application and development, application experience and Domestic and international free and open source software development, development trend in the coming time.

In the afternoon of the same day, there will be two divisions: a topic of free and open source software with education in order to promote and create the momentum to bring FOSS into application in training and implementing institutions. 2008 / CT-BGDDT dated September 30, 2008 of the Ministry of Education and Training on strengthening teaching, training and application of IT in education sector in the 2008-2012 period.

The second chapter is the topic of free and open source software for the community and businesses, to promote cooperation between open source communities, creating a direct dialogue forum between solution providers and users about Open source, introduction of open source application and development experience, introduction of open source solutions and software can be deployed immediately.

In addition to activities, there will be an exhibition area to introduce products and open source solutions of domestic and foreign enterprises.